Badavath Shanthamma

If you come down to Modulagudem in the Govindaraopet mandal, you can find Badavath Shanthamma at house number 2-264. This is deep in the Jayashankar Bhupalpally district. It is a beautiful area with a lot of trees and open space. We live and work right here. The house is old but it stays cool enough when the sun is beating down. We don't have any big corporate signs out front. It's just a home where we handle our daily business. Life here is mostly about the community and helping each other out. Sometimes the power goes out for a few hours but we just sit on the porch and wait it out. People in the district know us as quiet folks who mind our own business. We don't use a lot of technology or fancy systems. Everything is done by hand or by talking directly to the people who visit. It’s a very simple way of living. We see the seasons change from the front door. The rain makes the ground soft and the air smells like wet earth. We just do what we can with what we have. It’s not about making a big name for ourselves. We just want to live peacefully in Modulagudem and keep things going for the family. That’s enough for us and we don’t need much else to be happy. We are just part of the village life here.